After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, J Blakeson's I Care A Lot is heading to Netflix on February 19, 2021. Led by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike, I Care A Lot finds the actress playing one of her most sinister roles to date as she preys on the elderly and milks them for all they're worth as part of an elaborate money-making scheme. However, once she chooses the wrong target, she'll find that there's little escape from a trap of her own making.
Here's the official synopsis, per Netflix:
Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson (two-time Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest) – a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play – one that's neither fair nor square.
Starring alongside Pike in the off-color comedy are Peter Dinklage, Eiza González, Chris Messina, Macon Blair, Alicia Witt, Damian Young, with Isiah Whitlock Jr., and Dianne Wiest. Directed and written by Blakeson, I Care A Lot is executive produced by Andrea Ajemian and Sacha Guttenstein.
While many of us plebes will have to wait until February to watch I Care A Lot on Netflix, select members of the press had a chance to watch it at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. One of those lucky S.O.B.s was our own Chris Bumbray, who in his review says the film is "utterly unpredictable from start to finish." Bumbray also thought that both Pike and Dinklage deliver "outstanding" performances, with Dinklage's villain being one of the "scariest screen gangsters in years."
I Care A Lot sounds like a real winner to me, and I can't wait to check it out when it arrives on Netflix on February 19, 2021.